Philological Quarterly articles from June 1999

Philological Quarterly archives from June 1999

The Lingua Materna and the Conflict over Vernacular Religious Discourse in Fifteenth-Century England.
June 22, 1999... In late medieval England, the vernacular proved to be an effective medium for those attempting to demystify religious discourse that previously had been coded mainly in clerical Latin.(1) Increasing use of the vernacular posed a double...

Censorship and Generic Change: The Case of Satire on the Early Eighteenth-Century London Stage.
June 22, 1999... At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the London theatre world was changing in ways that greatly influenced satiric drama and theatrical censorship for the rest of the century. Traditional state control over the theatres was seriously...

Smollett's Representation and Critique of the Traffic in Women: a Narrative Strand in Roderick Random.(Tobias George Smollett)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... In Congreve's comedy The Way of the World the male protagonist, Mirabell, explains in a notorious speech to his former mistress, Arabella Fainall, why he made her marry Fainall. He recalls to her that at the time he and she both believed that...

A Calendar for Sense and Sensibility.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... There is a curious lacuna in Jane Austen studies one would have thought had been filled long ago. No-one has as yet drawn out and explained the chronology of Sense and Sensibility. From Austen's other five novels scholars have educed detailed...

Pascalian Reflections in Les Miserables.(Blaise Pascal)
June 22, 1999... Hugo only refers to Pascal by name in the opening chapters of Les Miserables, in the course of his description of Monseigneur Myriel, the Bishop of Digne.(1) Here, Hugo ambivalently calls the seventeenth-century Jansenist both a genius and a...

Books Received.(Bibliography)
June 22, 1999... LANGUAGE Devine, A. M., and Laurence D. Stephens. Discontinous Syntax: Hyperbation in Greek. Oxford U. Press, 2000. Pp. Vii + 348. $45.00. Filppula, Markku. The Grammar of Irish English: Language in Hibernian Style. Routledge/ESA...